What group of teachers in your building is most challenging to coach to make changes?
Why do you believe it is difficult to change the beliefs and practices of this group of teachers?
Reflect and Plan:
Review the criteria for common frameworks on page 16 of the book.
What is missing from the common framework for conversations about beliefs and unbiased reflection in your school?
What can you do to create a common framework that meets all criteria?
Before designing any staff development effort, consider these four essential questions:
What are the teachers' beliefs about how students learn?
How tightly are teachers' beliefs tied to their own strengths as educators?
What are the teachers' beliefs about their roles in student success?
What else keeps teachers from trying new practices?
Kise, Jane A. G. "What Do Teachers Believe?" Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin, 2006. 11. Print.
As a coach, how do you find the answers to the questions above from your teachers?
What have you tried that did not work?
What have you tried that is working?
Examine a portion of the chapter
1. Develop answers to the general questions below and from the questions specific for your assigned section of the text with your group.
2. Compare and share your group's answer with that of the other group answering the same question.
3. Plan and produce the paper slide video described at the bottom of this page that presents the answers to the questions.
General Questions:
Copy the two most important quotes from your section. What made these the key takeaways for your work?
What would be another title for your section? Explain.
What is the most difficult part of implementing the strategies in your section? How can you work to overcome those difficulties?
Group 1 Video
Group 2 Video
A Common Framework
(p.15-16)
1. Think of your most difficult team to work with. Do you have a framework for discussing teaching and learning?
2. How might you create a stronger one?
x x x
Providing Evidence That Influences Beliefs
(p.17-18)
1. Are there teachers with whom you work whose initial attitude mirrors Josh's? How have you dealt with that in the past? Takeaways for the future?
2. Why might this section be retitled "Show, Don't Tell"?x
x x x
Experience Insurance
(p.18-19) x 1, What is meant by the term experience insurance?
2. What is the coach's role in creating the "experience insurance"?
x x x
Pointing to the Evidence
(p. 20-21)
x 1. What role does data play in changing the beliefs of a teacher?
2. What happens when the data collected reinforces the teacher's beliefs that you were trying to change?
x
x x
Coaching Considerations Activity:
1. Work with your group to produce 3-6 paper slides on which you identify and/or illustrate the major take-aways from your section of the chapter and the implications for delivering differentiated coaching in your buildings.
2. Use PhotoBooth on a Mac or Windows Movie Maker on a PC to produce a quick and simple video in which the slides are featured and voice narration is added to explain your ideas. See the guidelines linked below. TICs will help as needed!
3. Allow one of the Technology Integration Coaches to work with you to save your group's movie.
Videos will be uploaded to this wiki page (published) after the meeting.
What Do Teachers Believe?
Think:
What group of teachers in your building is most challenging to coach to make changes?Why do you believe it is difficult to change the beliefs and practices of this group of teachers?
Reflect and Plan:
Review the criteria for common frameworks on page 16 of the book.- What is missing from the common framework for conversations about beliefs and unbiased reflection in your school?
- What can you do to create a common framework that meets all criteria?
Please respond to the anonymous poll.Discuss the essential questions:
Before designing any staff development effort, consider these four essential questions:- What are the teachers' beliefs about how students learn?
- How tightly are teachers' beliefs tied to their own strengths as educators?
- What are the teachers' beliefs about their roles in student success?
- What else keeps teachers from trying new practices?
Kise, Jane A. G. "What Do Teachers Believe?" Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin, 2006. 11. Print.Participate in our group discussion about using these essential questions to facilitate change.
Room Name: BakerDM
Examine a portion of the chapter
1. Develop answers to the general questions below and from the questions specific for your assigned section of the text with your group.2. Compare and share your group's answer with that of the other group answering the same question.
3. Plan and produce the paper slide video described at the bottom of this page that presents the answers to the questions.
General Questions:
Group 1 Video
Group 2 Video
A Common Framework
(p.15-16)1. Think of your most difficult team to work with.
Do you have a framework for discussing teaching and learning?
2. How might you create a stronger one?
x
x
x
Providing Evidence That Influences Beliefs
(p.17-18)1. Are there teachers with whom you work whose initial attitude mirrors Josh's?
How have you dealt with that in the past? Takeaways for the future?
2. Why might this section be retitled "Show, Don't Tell"?x
x
x
x
Experience Insurance
(p.18-19)x
1, What is meant by the term experience insurance?
2. What is the coach's role in creating the "experience insurance"?
x
x
x
Pointing to the Evidence
(p. 20-21)x
1. What role does data play in changing the beliefs of a teacher?
2. What happens when the data collected reinforces the teacher's beliefs
that you were trying to change?
x
x
x
Coaching Considerations Activity:
1. Work with your group to produce 3-6 paper slides on which you identify and/or illustrate the major take-aways from your section of the chapter and the implications for delivering differentiated coaching in your buildings.2. Use PhotoBooth on a Mac or Windows Movie Maker on a PC to produce a quick and simple video in which the slides are featured and voice narration is added to explain your ideas. See the guidelines linked below. TICs will help as needed!
3. Allow one of the Technology Integration Coaches to work with you to save your group's movie.
Videos will be uploaded to this wiki page (published) after the meeting.
Paper Slide Videos - Guidelines
How to PSV: